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APPENDIX. 
Letter from the Church-wardens and Overseers of the Parish of 
St. Martin-in-the- Fields to Sir John Sinclair. 
Sir,—The great attention you have so long paid to the agri- 
culture of the United Kingdoms, induces the overseers of the pa- 
rish of St. Martin-in-the-Fields to request.the favour of your opi- 
nion on the practicability, and the probable advautage, of direct- 
ing the labour of the poor to the cultivation of the waste lands 
throughout the country.—To find beneficial employment for the 
parish poor, without interfering, directly or remotely, with esta- 
blished branches of trade and manufacture, is at present exceed- 
ingly difficult, and it is impossible to discover any effectual re- 
medy without having recourse to land. Might not a consider- 
able number of the able poor be profitably employed in carrying 
on some great agricultural object throughout the country, so as 
to render us independent of foreign supplies for subsistence >? Will 
you have the kindness to communicate to the public your views 
on this most important and interesting subject ? 
Your very obedient humble servant, 
To the Right Hon. WixxiaM Toone, 
Sir John Sinclatr, Bart, Clerk to the Church-wardens and Overseers. 
Ormly-Lodge, Ham Common, 
Surrey, Nov. 21, 1818. 
General View of the Profit to be derived from the Culture of 
Waste Lands, under a proper System. By Sir John Sinclair. 
It cannot be doubted, that 10,000 acres of lands, lying en- 
‘tirely waste, may be purchased at a moderate rate. ‘The ex- 
penses of bringing them into a state of cultivation may be -cal- 
“culated as follows: First Year. 
1. Trenching, 5/. per acre... eee ee eee ee» £90,000 
4», Manure, lols per acre... ces sk cers ..-- 150,000 
3. Seed, labour, and various other expenses..,. _ 20,000 
£220,000 
Second Year. 
1. Digging; 27. 10s. per acre........-£25,000 
2. Manure, 5/, per acre ....... nbs a.0r> Faslvgero 
3: Seed, labour, &c. sscccsecsssee+- 20,000 
——_— 95,000 
£315,000 
The produce, per acre, where the spade-husbandry is adopted, 
‘may be stated at 20/. per acre, or, on 10,000 acres, at 400,0002. 
in two years; but if even considerably less, it would produce a 
surplus sufficient to pay a considerable dividend on the capital ex- 
pended, 
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